Comments on: ept copenhagen http://www.stevesbets.com/64/ept-copenhagen/ professional online poker player Mon, 03 May 2010 03:37:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ari Paul http://www.stevesbets.com/64/ept-copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Ari Paul Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:25:29 +0000 http://www.stevesbets.com/64/ept-copenhagen/#comment-331 One comment on the complaining about bad players - the players complaining probably don't know this, but is very possible that a decent player can make more from a table of slightly weaker players than from a tablel of terrible players. Against a table of terrible players you get an effect called schooling, where the bad players effectively protect one another. If the game is wild enough, the volatility may be so high that you rarely have significant edge because the weak players are forcing you to gamble. It becomes kind of like the shootouts that occur at the end of tournaments. Yes, the better player always has edge, but less. Against slightly weaker players, you may be able to consistently outmaneuver them to have tremendous edge. Using fencing as a metaphor - when I first started fencing Epee, I was practicing with an exceptional fencer and consistently losing 5 to 3. He would complain that I was being stupidly wild and erratic and was fencing terribly. When I started using proper technique, he started beating me 5 to 0 or 5 to 1. I complained that my "better" fencing was having me do worse and he explained that wild fencing might let me score higher, but I would always be a consistent loser with it. If I used proper technique he could more easily beat me because he knew what to expect, but that was the path to greatness and the only way I could ever consistently beat him. One comment on the complaining about bad players – the players complaining probably don’t know this, but is very possible that a decent player can make more from a table of slightly weaker players than from a tablel of terrible players. Against a table of terrible players you get an effect called schooling, where the bad players effectively protect one another. If the game is wild enough, the volatility may be so high that you rarely have significant edge because the weak players are forcing you to gamble. It becomes kind of like the shootouts that occur at the end of tournaments. Yes, the better player always has edge, but less. Against slightly weaker players, you may be able to consistently outmaneuver them to have tremendous edge.

Using fencing as a metaphor – when I first started fencing Epee, I was practicing with an exceptional fencer and consistently losing 5 to 3. He would complain that I was being stupidly wild and erratic and was fencing terribly. When I started using proper technique, he started beating me 5 to 0 or 5 to 1. I complained that my “better” fencing was having me do worse and he explained that wild fencing might let me score higher, but I would always be a consistent loser with it. If I used proper technique he could more easily beat me because he knew what to expect, but that was the path to greatness and the only way I could ever consistently beat him.

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